Match Report
The table gap was wide: 39 points between Ninh Bình (1st, 58 pts) and Hòa Bình (7th, 19 pts). Per game in the league, Hòa Bình were scoring 0.75 and conceding 1, Ninh Bình 2 and 0.15, against a competition average of 0.97 goals per team per game.
Hòa Bình had gone 14 games without a win. Ninh Bình came in having won three on the spin, having scored in 15 consecutive games. Recent form was uneven: 3/15 points for Hòa Bình, 13/15 for Ninh Bình.
4 meetings are on record — 1 won by Hòa Bình, 2 by Ninh Bình, 1 drawn, at 1.75 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 25% of the wins in this matchup. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 25% of the meetings went over two goals.
Half-time and full-time told different stories: Hòa Bình led 1-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 1-1.
Goal scorers
Hòa Bình: 1 goal with no recorded scorer · Ninh Bình: 1 goal with no recorded scorer
Key stats
Possession: Hòa Bình 41% · Ninh Bình 59% · Total shots: 5-14 · On target: 3-3 · Corners: 1-4